A Bit Of Everything

Hi!! Meet Braxton!
He is a very lucky calf as Sharon and Paul adopted him so Jezebel had a sibling and could help drink the milk that her mother has lots of.
Sadly Braxton wasn’t wanted by the farmer (I am not sure exactly why… male and wrong breed??)
This sounds totally horrible, but he was going to be shot and discarded.
That just hurts my heart.

Look at how little and adorable he is!

That is the ugly face of intensive farming.
I am not a vegetarian, but thats just a waste of a life. Whatever is in Braxtons future, at least he is going to HAVE a life, and a good one at that!

Margie enjoying Baby Moo cuddles.

Me enjoying a smoothie at Sharons with great farm views!

(Banana Muffins)

I think I broke my promise about blogging the next day… Ummm.. I don’t even know what happened to that day!!!

Anyway, I am in Panic Cleaning Mode

So excited… my parents are booked to arrive in Tassie on the 30th March and one of my sisters, Rosemary is booked to arrive on the 1st of April!
Its been over 12 months since I saw my parents and cant remember when I last saw my sisters and families!!

My parents get to stay for a couple of weeks, where as Rosemary has a shorter window of almost 5 days.

We are so very much looking forward to it!
(I turn 50 on the 31st of March, hence a good time for people to come on down and poke fun at me for making it to half a century.)

I’ve decided to leave out the soap updates for this post… seemed like the post might end up going on and on for too long.
Lets talk veggies.

Corn!! First corn!! I will confess I picked these a bit early. Its just that everything is SO LATE and I was getting impatient.
So they tasted ok but nothing to get super excited about. I’ll just have to be patient and wait for the next lot.
I am hoping they might time themselves right for when my family is here then I can look like a champion!

Finally got what I would call a decent pick of tomatoes!!
We are loving them in the salad each night.
Jeff has also been making himself a lunch salad of tuna, tomatoes and mayo.
This was the other day, so I reckon I should be able to go out and pick some more.
They are terribly late too… Still crossing my fingers for enough to stock up on my relish … we are getting low.

We pretty much have potatoes nightly too… the patch is looking really scruffy so I think next time Jeff and I are free and the weather is ok, we should just dig ’em all up (can’t wait… so much fun!)

Carrots are a good cross between lovely, huge and straight… and downright suspect…

This one seems to be running away…

I’ve been out at Sharons today… we had another soap workshop… a few cancellations meant we were down to 4 people, but we offered them to do a second batch for an extra fee since we had a fair bit of spare time, which three of the ladies said yes to!!
So we did 7 batches with students, I did one demo batch then after everyone had gone, Sharon put together one more as she has a big soap order upcoming.

Oh… and I came home and ended up doing a batch tonight.
I need an intervention lol

Quick Pip Update?? He is not in the cone all the time. Things seemed to have calmed down a bit, but he must be going a bit senile or something because he bites his penis then howls and wonders why that hurt!!! (and bleeds!!!)
I don’t think the vet has a solution for stooopid cat!
We’ve been giving him a calming drug daily, although I left off the last few days until we had an ‘incident’ yesterday.
While we are out or he is locked in his room for the night we put the cone on so he can’t have free range on his nether regions.
This is so weird!!
Apart from that, healthy, good appetite, affectionate and currently curled up on my lap sleeping!!

So… I reckon I am done for the night.
Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!
Cheers!